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This programme identifies different technical approaches for designing energy efficient housing, considering space heating, hot water and electricity supply. While technical solutions go some way to...
Shows how electricity is generated and moves from the power station to the home. Covers generation of electricity in a coal-fired power station - coal handling, boilers, water treatment, ash filtering power...
Describes how electricity is distributed from power stations to the end user. Key elements of the distribution process are addressed. These include line loss; transformers; the high voltage network;...
Uses a dramatisation to illustrate the consequences of playing with electricity. Intended to prevent accidents involving electrical generation and distribution equipment and to discourage young people from...
1: An examination of the electricity industry: uses aerial photography and 3-D computer modelling to explain the operation of two major generations of power station: the 1960s’ coal-burning station at...
Explores the materials science behind the engineering of national electricity supplies, both above and below ground. Shows work inside a high-voltage test lab and inside the production areas for porcelain...
A visit to a coal-fired power station shows viewers the sheer size and scale of the engineering. Graphics sequences explain how the various components of the plant work together. Uses the Didcot, Berkshire,...
Shows how wind turbines can produce safe, reliable, cost-effective and non-polluting electricity. Part 1 covers the properties of wind and shows how turbines work. Part 2 shows a vertical axis machine being...
Explains the workings of the Ferrybridge coal-fired power station and covers career opportunities in a power station.
Looks at the combined cycle gas turbine power station at Killingholme on Humberside. Shows how natural gas is burned to produce steam for power generation and how heat which would once have gone to waste is...
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